New Novel Invites Teens to Ponder our Privileged Planet

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

4 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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There's a wealth of books covering the arguments for intelligent design, and yet one type of book has so far been missing - a young adult novel. That changes with the release of The Farm at the Center of the Universe, a new teen novel from astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez and author Jonathan Witt, now available from Discovery Institute Press. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid sits down with Gonzalez and Witt to discuss how the book came about and what readers can hope to gain from it. Source

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0:00.0	I. D. the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome to I. D. The Future. I'm Andrew McDermott. Well today I'm sitting down with
0:16.8	Guillermo Gonzales and Jonathan Witt co-authors of a new young adult novel
0:22.1	called The Farm at the Center of the Universe, now available
0:25.6	from Discovery Institute Press.
0:28.2	Geremle Gonzalez is a senior fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He received his PhD in Astronomy in 1993
0:36.8	from the University of Washington. He has done postdoctoral work at the University of Texas
0:41.6	Austin and at the University of Washington and has
0:44.7	received fellowships, grants and awards from such institutions as NASA, the University
0:50.2	of Washington, the Templeton Foundation, the Scientific Research Society, Sigma Z, and the National Science Foundation.
0:58.0	Jonathan Witt is executive editor of Discovery Institute Press, and Senior Fellow and Senior Project Manager with Discovery
1:05.8	Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
1:08.6	He is author or co-author of several books, including A Meaningful World, the arts and sciences reveal the genius of nature,
1:15.8	intelligent design uncensored, and Herratic, one scientist's journey from Darwin to design.
1:24.4	Witt is the lead writer and Associate Proverity Inc. winner of the Templeton Freedom Award and
1:28.6	recipient of over 50 International Film Festival Awards.
1:33.0	Gentlemen, welcome, it's a pleasure to have you.
1:36.0	Happy to be here.
1:38.0	Yeah, glad to be here, Andrew.
1:40.0	Well, you can both add to your impressive credentials that you're now young adult fiction authors now. How does that feel?
1:47.0	Well, that's great. I never thought I'd be saying that or here that said, but it's exciting to write in this genre.
1:53.2	Yeah, we're looking forward to the rollout on what, May 21st.
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